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Seis R Camera Fixing – Mission Complete!

Category: Day by day | Date: Mar 28 2008 | By: admin

After a little rest on Good Friday I was trying to figure out what was happening with one of the Camera Traps. We were fixing it on Thursday by afternoon and it gets a shoot without any movement in front of it. As in previous surveys some film rolls gets photos each 5 minutes (the interval we fix between one photo and another) we wait few minutes to see if it was the case. Yes, a new shoot after five minutes… Here go again, as Theresa said so well on Murphy`s Law:

- If it wasn’t for bad luck, I’d have no luck at all.

The camera was discharging the photographic film taking nice photos of… nothing! It’s a great problem and if we don’t pay attention the camera finish a complete roll in a few hours. It is not easy to this electronic equipment resist to the humidity, tropical sunshine that changes quickly in amazing storms and turn to sunshine again. Even the stones break. So, I could not figure out what was wrong with the camera: at home it works properly. How to understand it?

CameraPatience and carefull with the equipment is essential… 

Me and my Jedi Knights Cicinho and Wilson finish to setup more three camera stations on Seis R. Mission Complete! The last one station was special! We found an ocelot trail along an old road and the exact point were they (we do believe there was a couple) leave the road and goes inside the forest. A good signal! I can’t wait to see what we will get in that station. A nice sunset and back home to prepare my stuff to travel to Nazaré Paulista (800 Km from Pontal), the IPÊ head quarter to our general  meeting that happens each three months with all IPÊ’s researchers. Easter on road!

Sunset

Cheers!

10 Responses to “Seis R Camera Fixing – Mission Complete!”

F. J. Pechir, on 28 Mar 2008

Well, let´s hope that some good pictures come out from those camera traps! I wonder if the ocelot specimens in that particular area have that strong ocre-grey (light brown-grey) background coloration (apart from its black markings), as some other populations that inhabit dense tropical forest, by the way, what kind of forest vegetation is there on the location of the cameras? I ask this question because, as you know, there are different types of forests and would be interesting to know the kind of habitat that is being considered to get these photos. Good luck! Espero que tengan la mejor de las suertes en sus trabajos de campo e investigaciones. Cientificos como ustedes son cada dia mas necesarios pra la preservacion de todas estos especies en peligro! Thanks again…

F. J. Pechir, on 28 Mar 2008

What happen with your last post, where you show that magnifficent pictures of the female jaguar and her cub, and the mountain lion??? How about “Diane” for the name of the female and “Ody” for her gorgeous cub?

Theresa Siskind St Petersburg FL, on 28 Mar 2008

All I can say, is that photo with you “capturing” the sun, just blows me away, amazing.

Nancy, on 31 Mar 2008

The Sun
by Mary Oliver

Have you ever seen
anything
in your life
more wonderful

than the way the sun,
every evening,
relaxed and easy,
floats toward the horizon

and into the clouds or the hills,
or the rumpled sea,
and is gone–
and how it slides again

out of the blackness,
every morning,
on the other side of the world,
like a red flower

streaming upward on its heavenly oils,
say, on a morning in early summer,
at its perfect imperial distance–
and have you ever felt for anything
such wild love–
do you think there is anywhere, in any language,
a word billowing enough
for the pleasure

that fills you,
as the sun
reaches out,
as it warms you

as you stand there,
empty-handed–
or have you too
turned from this world–

or have you too
gone crazy
for power,
for things?

F. J. Pechir, on 31 Mar 2008

Beautiful post Nancy, that same way of thinking lead to many cultures and civilizations to see, in the sun, a God. Its a shame that in a number of thousands of millions of years this very beautiful pigmy red star will consume all life on Earth, and then, the Earth itself in an apocalyptical fussion…

Theresa Siskind St Petersburg FL, on 31 Mar 2008

Oh Nancy, that was beautiful.

jaguardetectives, on 01 Apr 2008

Hi Mr. Pechir!
The pelage color varies greatly, even within a population. Actually the Atlantic Rainforest domain is subdivided into two major regions based on the vegetation types and geographical features. The first type is classified as Tropical Evergreen Mesophytic Forest, and originally covered most of the Brazilian eastern slopes extending to the coastline. It is most exuberant and diverse in plants such orchids because of the humidity from the sea. The second type, classified as Tropical Semideciduous Mesophytic Forest, extends to the western range of the coastal hills, stretching to the Plateau region of the interior of Brazil and is the type of forest were we are working. A general characteristic is that great part of the trees lose the leaves on the dry season, which promotes great influence on wildlife.
Obrigado amigo! Grande abraço!

jaguardetectives, on 01 Apr 2008

Sorry about the post Mr. Pechir.
I detected a little problem with the photo size. Now it is OK!

jaguardetectives, on 01 Apr 2008

Thanks for that Nancy!
It was really inspiring!

F. J. Pechir, on 01 Apr 2008

Thank you for your comments and kind answer! that info. will be very useful to us in order to ubicate this species in a determined habitat. Muchas gracias nuevamenta!!

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